to do so in wartime." The decree was immediately carried out in respect to the mentally sick, and between December, /" 1939, and August, 1941, more than fifty thousand Germans were killed with carbon-monoxide gas in institutions where the death rooms were disguised exactly as they later were in Ausch- witz-as shower rooms and bathrooms. The program was a flop. It was im- possible to keep the gassing a secret from the surrounding German popula- tion, and SInce at that time, apparently, few people had attained the "objective" insight into the nature of medicine and the duty of a physician, there were protests from all sides. The gassing in the East-or, to put it in the language of the Nazis, "the humane way" of kill- ing by granting people "a mercy death"-began almost on the very day when the gassIng in Germany was stopped. The men who had been busy with the euthanasIa program in Ger- many were now sent to the East to build installations for the extermination of whole peoples, and these were men who came either from Hitler's Chancellery or from the Reich Health Department and were only now put under the ad- ministrative authority of Himmler. None of the various "language rules" that were so carefully contrIved to deceive and to camouflage had a deeper effect on the attitude of the kill- ers than that 1939 decree, in which the word "murder" was replaced by the phrase "to grant a mercy death." Eich- mann was asked by the police examiner if the directive to avoid "unnecessary hardships" was not a bit ironic, in view of the fact that the destination of these -. ,:(" people was certain death anyhow, and he did not even understand the question, so firmly was it still anchored in his mind that the unforgivable sin was not to kill people but to cause unnecessary pain. During the trIal, he showed unmistak- able sIgns of sincere outrage when wit- nesses told of cruelties and atrocities commItted by S.S. men-though the court and much of the audience failed to see the signs, because his single-mind- ed effort to keep his self-control had misled them into believing that he was "unmovable" and indifferent-and it was not the accusation of having sent millions of people to their death that ever caused him real agitation but only the accusation (dismissed by the court) of one witness that he had once beaten a Jewish boy to death. To be sure he had also sent people into the area where the Einsatzgruppen were active, and these people were not "granted a mercy death" but were killed by shooting; he 109 The Beach that made Bermuda Famous! (Color it PINK!) -" .. I . ""'1' .-- , Elbo"\'\' Beach Surf Cluo BERMUDA'S FAMOUS OCEANSIDE HOTEL cv ELKINS, GENERAL MANAGER See your Travel Agent or our International Representatives Robert F. Warner, Inc. · New York. Boston · Washington · Chicago · Miami · Toronto · london :---== . ::-::: .. .... .n.... ...._._._ ."-:- ... -* he b uti e'r did it! , '='t ' :' -ø =1;>" a>:: ><<>> !:,.-. 1:. , . ...... ( - ,t : YØ': "T', ,..'. -M'" :,',: -. V' 't::' . . . ..... " , , * :'<\ , , ,.: : ,':;' . , :'" . .. ..... - 0" ':". >>./ ". ........" -::0(... ,..... " ': "t J ;".,. f' . ","3W" '. ,r "i.:: i <' 'f{:1! :s ' J< ,"j:f(i ," ..,.-: ::. i i .;;. '<" Ñ " " Q" ": . . . ! ... h...... ),..,'. .:'> Y:'.. , " , , . . ":':, .. ::'l ..: {; o""y x.:y.::. r / "'. .." -: .J, ,I:: -:-........ '. .. ,... {; ) , : x": :<t ::-: .-=:.- . ,'\ But, of course! At the Stanhope, the butler does practically every- thing. Paul Frederick Nieder- meier, supervisor of butIing, sees to that. When you entertain in your suite, Niedermeier will greet your guests, supervise the serv- ing of drinks and dinner. Posh? Admittedly. Expensive? Not nearly so much as you think. And how refreshing it is to find this gracious old-world flavor at so 1110dern and luxurious a hotel. ê And, of course, superb dining in W the famous Rembrandt Room. JOHN F. ISARD, General Manager # mm I8I(Û)JF)I I8I(û) mJ1 Fifth Avenue at Eighty-First · Opposite the Metropolitan Museum of Art · Reservations: BD 8-5800